Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2012 WGP Congress, June 27-28, 2012, Berlin, Germany. The 39 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Light Weight Construction, Chapter 2: Enabling Mass Production, Chapter 3: Medical and Micro Technology, Chapter 4: E-Mobility, Chapter 5:...

In this paper a slicing tree based tabu search heuristic for the rectangular, continual plane facility layout problem is presented. In addition to the incorporation of facilities with unequal areas we also integrate the possibility to specify various requirements regarding (rectangular) shape...

The cluster concept has steadily increased its importance during the past years – both from practitioners’ and researchers’ perspective. Simultaneously many corporate networks have been established. Researchers from different areas (business management, economics, social and geographical...